Well here at last, young Venator, is the getting in Mace. For a while you had better merely follow and observe me and thus you will sooner " get the hang " of this merry business of taking basses on fraudulent feathers. We will keep to the left bank going down stream, and thus avoid the necessity of casting left handed.
That gray gaunt tree lying there in the swift water near the other shore might shelter a bass. Note that black hole under it in the bed of the stream; surely a
likely spot. I won't take a chance on scaring him by casting toward his lair but will cast down stream on this side until I have enough line out to reach the tree. Then, at the end of my last back cast, I will turn and drop this Yellow May where he can get it — if he's there and in ye mood. What! No rise ? Very well, I'll just work along the log, letting the current carry the fly past it. Well! Maybe he doesn't like the Yellow May and we'll try this number 4 Brown Palmer. Come on, son, we'll be movin' along — that fish doesn't know good fishing when he sees it!
